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Campaign Crawlers
The Plan, the Man, and the Believers
Four years of failure don’t disillusion Obama’s faithful.
Less than two weeks before Americans finally have a chance to vote him out of office, President Obama has begun shouting at campaign rallies: “I’ve got a plan!”
It’s really a slogan, not a plan, referring to a 20-page pamphlet that is about as plausible as Obama’s notorious June 2008 boast that his election would mark “the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” Difficult as it may now be to recall, there were once “spiritually advanced people” who looked at this Chicago machine politician and saw “a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being… who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet.” Obviously, none of these “advanced” people read The American Spectator, but many of them are still out there awaiting this “new way of being,” which is the only possible explanation for the crowds who show up to cheer their hero as he reads his lines from the teleprompter screens.
“We’ve got a long way to go, Iowa, but we’ve come too far to turn back now,” Obama declared at a rally Wednesday in Davenport. “We can’t afford to go back to what got us into this mess. We’ve got to stick with policies that are getting out of this mess. That’s why I’m running for a second term as President of the United States of America.”
The idolatrous horde burst into applause and began chanting, “Four more years!” And their idol hadn’t even told them about The Plan yet. The following passage differs from the official transcript in that it has been punctuated to convey more accurately the cadence of the Lightworker’s delivery: “Now, the good news is I’ve got a plan! That will actually create jobs! That will actually reduce the deficit! That will actually create middle-class security! And unlike Mitt Romney, I’m proud to talk about what’s actually in my plan! Because my math actually adds up!”
Spiritually advanced people don’t usually get too excited about math, but for a Lightworker, they’re willing to make an exception. The transcript indicates that the Davenport crowd interrupted to applaud the president’s speech more than 35 times and, before considering any of the specifics of The Plan, we should pause to ask a few questions: Where do they come from, these thousands of True Believers who show up for Obama rallies and applaud such nonsense? What precise combination of resentment and credulity is necessary to believe that Obama now has The Plan that can accomplish in the next four years what he has so spectacularly failed to do in the past four years?
Their credulity is perhaps best explained by a recent study that found America’s faculty lounges remain a bastion of intellectual diversity where political opinion ranges from moderate Bolshevism to the more progressive views historically associated with such leaders as Idi Amin, Bela Kun, and Pol Pot. The left-wing hegemony in academia has made discredited socialist theories as fashionable as Che Guevara T-shirts on campus, creating a ready market for the type of trendy hokum that once inspired George Orwell to remark, “One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.”
Credulous as they are — exactly the kind of suckers whom P.T. Barnum said should never be given an even break — the Obamaphile masses are even more remarkable for their boundless resentment of The Rich. The Democrat Party nowadays is a Coalition of Hate and Envy, held together by a paranoid nightmare vision of hedge-fund managers and venture capitalists plundering the helpless middle class. And the dastardly villain in this economic melodrama, conveniently enough, is a Republican named Mitt Romney, whose malicious schemes the Lightworker heroically opposes.
“Folks at the very top get to play by a very different set of rules than you do,” Obama said, explaining to the Davenport crowd what he called the “one-point plan” of his GOP challenger. “They can keep paying lower tax rates than you do, keep their money in off-shore accounts. They can buy up a company, load it up with debt, lay off the workers, strip away their pensions, send the jobs overseas — and they still make a big profit while the middle class gets stuck with the bill.… That was his philosophy in the private sector. That was his philosophy as governor. That’s his philosophy now.”
Attributing systematic and deliberate unfairness to Republicans as The Party of the Rich has been the basic message of the Democratic Party for as long as any living soul can remember. It is their raison d’être, their stock in trade, their Fundamental Article of Faith. There are jihadis in Waziristan and snake-handlers in Appalachian hollows less zealous in their beliefs than are Democrats in the grip of a class-warfare revival, and Obama is their Elmer Gantry. Watching his Davenport sermon on TV, you almost expected to see someone leap up in the audience, fling away his crutches and shout, “Hallelujah! I can walk!”
The gospel tract of this Democratic crusade is The Plan, the greatest promise of which is that it “will cut the deficit by $4 trillion over the next 10 years,” as Obama told his Davenport congregation, “but we’re going to do it in a balanced way. We’re going to cut out spending we don’t need, but we’re also going to ask the wealthiest Americans to pay a little bit more.” None of his cheering admirers would dare question that claim — for surely a Lightworker would never lie to them — but the infidels at the Wall Street Journal did the math and found that Obama’s tax hike on the rich “increases revenue only between $50 billion and $80 billion a year, a rounding error in the $1 trillion-plus deficit era.”
Such is the unavoidable problem with The Plan. However much it may satisfy the class-warfare fervor of the Democratic faithful, taxing the rich won’t fix the deficit. As for Obama’s promise to “cut out spending we don’t need,” it is impossible for any honest and intelligent person to take seriously such a promise coming from the man who recklessly squandered taxpayer money on “green energy” boondoggles like Solyndra.
But it is a rare thing these days to encounter a Democrat who is both honest and intelligent. It has become a party of fools misled by clever liars, and the factual deficiencies of The Plan won’t dissuade any Democrat who still believes in the rainbows-and-unicorns fantasy of Obama the Lightworker. We’ve come to expect such delusions among the intelligentsia. What is astonishing is that any ordinary man could still be such a fool.
About the Author
Robert Stacy McCain is co-author (with Lynn Vincent) of Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party (Nelson Current). He blogs at The Other McCain.
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Aristocat| 10.25.12 @ 6:13AM
Amazing how they deceive themselves...When they return to reality, it's going to be a hard fall...The Great Deceiver...
TLP| 10.25.12 @ 8:40AM
All of this History Repeating itself is wearing me out. What, with all of the Warnings out there and AGAIN, nobody Heeding them.
Why is vtwin's "Nigga" (His word, not mine) here, at this time? How is this Muslim Boy, raised in The Muslim World on Muslim Hatred, the President of the most Powerful Christian Nation in the History of the World, now, and at this time?
How can a guy who supposedly was born in Hawaii, have a Connecticut Social Security Number - Prefix 042? And how is it that a Guy who won his two previous Illinois State Elections by having his Opponent's Divorce Records UNSEALED by a Bought and Paid For Chicago Judge, be allowed to keep His Own Sealed Records SEALED? And why would anyone Seal Away their Passport, their College Transcripts, their College Thesis, and their College Scholarship Paperwork?
What is he hiding?
We've got The Second Greatest Story Ever Told, and nobody wants to Tell it, lest they be dragged through the mud as a Racist, or worse.
He claims he's a Christian, even as he Attacks the Catholic Church for their Beliefs.he claims that he's a follower of the teachings of CHRIST, yet he sat in a Hate Church for 20 Years, and Refused to speak at Georgetown, unless every Christian Symbol in the room was REMOVED.
He claims he's the Best Friend that Israel has ever had, and yet he's never been there, as opposed to all of the Muslim Countries that he's visited.
TLP| 10.25.12 @ 9:01AM
He Honoured his Muslim Brotherhood Comrades in his Home, while leaving the Israeli Leader, downstairs in the Kitchen, while he went to get something to eat for HIMSELF, before having the JEW exit his Home through the Side Door, where he keeps his Garbage Cans.
He went to War with Libya, so he could hand it over to the Islamists, the same way he did in Egypt, with his Judas Kiss on Mubarek.
He does nothing with Iran, and even less, concerning the Massacres in Syria. He seems to only have a Problem with the JEWS in the Middle East, always building Apartments in THEIR OWN FREAKIN CAPITOL!
Everything in the Book of Revelation is Coming to Pass. EVERYTHING.
Do not be surprised if this Final Battle does, indeed, begin in the Ancient City of Meggido, as the Bible tells us.
Evil is on the March.
Russia's Military Might grows. And with it, so does its Belligerence.
The same is true for China, and its Intentions in Southeast Asia and the Phillipines. As well as the rise, once again, of a South American Communist Resurgence.
But enough of all that.
Let's talk about Free Condoms, shall we?
Joellen| 10.25.12 @ 9:17AM
Tim, the simple answer, we arent that Christian any longer. If we were, Congressman Murdock wouldn't be taken out of context, shunned and asked to be removed as a good leader, simply because of his defense of all life from conception to nature death. If we were, we wouldnt be divided by the notion that family, which consist of father, mother and children is the lifeblood of our foundation. If we truly believed that all good comes from GOD, these people who follow Obama and his ilk, wouldnt, for if they had faith, they would know that GOD blessed all of us with certain potential, and it is up to the individual, not the Government, to ferment it. If we were, those of us who adhere to the one true GOD would'nt constantly be under attack because we believe GOD's laws (the ten commandments) and adhere to his rules and not man made/government rules that are out there simply to replace GOD. When we return to our true Christian roots, we will become a "rich" country once again. Till then, fools, that blindly follow Obama and his ilk, will continue to do so.
vtwin| 10.25.12 @ 10:53AM
We never were "Christian" what we are is free people, free to make our own decisions about our own lives but people like Murdock want to make the decisions about our own lives for us, Murdock wants to take our freedoms away.
Riff Raff| 10.25.12 @ 11:41AM
Waht we "WERE" is a free people, but people like Obama want to make decisions about our own lives for us, Obama wants to take our freedoms away and make us wards of the State, completely dependent on the largesse of self-important politicians. Welcome to the New Caesarism. There is far more to be feared in government than in Murdock.
TLP| 10.25.12 @ 7:49PM
Contest, tomorrow Riff Raff (Let's do the,Timewarp again)
Look for the Clues.
Dai Alanye | 10.25.12 @ 12:25PM
The freedom that vtwin specifically refers to is the "freedom" to execute unborn children. And perhaps the recently-born as well. Never mind all those other freedoms that BO has assaulted.
vtwin| 10.25.12 @ 1:45PM
Do you really want to surrender your or your daughters and granddaughters freedom to make decision about continuing a pregnancy resulting from rape to politicians?
John II| 10.25.12 @ 1:57PM
That can't be right. Why would anyone want to continue a pregnancy resulting from rape to politicians? Don't you mean deciding to rape a politician resulting from pregnancy?
You must take greater care with your syntax, Twitty.
TLP| 10.25.12 @ 3:59PM
I don't want your "Nigga". (vtwin's words, not mine)
KyMouse| 10.25.12 @ 4:13PM
Vtwin, it isn't "a pregnancy" that is sliced into pieces and thrown out in the trash; it's a human being that is developing the very same way you and I did at that stage of our lives.
In this country, a rape conviction by itself doesn't earn a man the death penalty. If the guilty man isn't executed, why should his innocent child be executed?
The baby is not the mother's attacker, but is, in fact, a second victim. Both mother and child need help and support in order to get on with their lives.
There are more than 4,000 pregnancy-resource centers in this country that are eager to help mothers in crisis pregnancies. They provide a wide range of assistance, including help in finding adoptive homes for babies.
Doing violence to the baby won't undo the violence already done to the mother. Abortion brings its own emotional and physical dangers, and often seems like a second rape to the mother.
No one, including a child's mother, knows how a baby's life will turn out. In fact, she may find, as her pregnancy continues, that she wants her child to have a chance at life.
Is there ANY child who doesn't deserve that chance?
Vtwin, if your mother told you today that you had been conceived during rape, would you say, "My life isn't worth living -- I should have been killed"?
Or would you say, "Thanks, Mom, for letting me live"?
Joellen| 10.25.12 @ 4:49PM
Beautifully said KyMouse - thank you.
Anthony| 10.25.12 @ 4:26PM
We make exceptions for any women forced to have sex with you and your ilk, vtwin.
TLP| 10.25.12 @ 7:51PM
How about we leave them to the Freedom not to get Laid?
Is that alright with you, and your Nigga?
TinaB| 10.25.12 @ 8:20PM
What about the freedom to a Super Late Full Term All the Way up to the Age of Vtwin abortion? Huh? Is that legal? No? That's murder too? Oh, ok.
Anthony| 10.25.12 @ 4:24PM
Jeez vtwin, you're not supposed to stick your finger in the electrical socket whe charging your Volt, or Leaf, cuz you'll fry your pea brain.
The only folks who want to control are you and your fellow lefty goose-steppers.
Can I get me here some frys with that 64 oz Coke? Why not Moochelle?
ebonystone| 10.25.12 @ 2:18PM
"Congressman Murdock"
Richard Mourdock is not, and never has been, a Congressman, although he did run for that office a few times. He is the Treasurer of the State of Indiana and the Republican candidate for Senator.
HereInPortland| 10.25.12 @ 5:11PM
TROLLS
Let us pause to thank God for the few trolls that visit this site. Without their input, there would be nothing but foolish propaganda.
The trolls inject a little objectivity.
Truth to Power| 10.25.12 @ 6:55PM
Time to get back on your meds.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.25.12 @ 8:36PM
...and I'm sure the snow has come early to the mountains this autumn...
KyMouse| 10.25.12 @ 9:45AM
Does anybody know where we can get a hard copy of The Plan that Obama is waving around? The one with so many photos of him and so little real information? I'd love one.
Mr. Melvin| 10.25.12 @ 10:37AM
If Colin Powell (oh, how you used to champion him) can back President Obama, so can you.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has backed President Obama for a second term in the White House.
The Republican crossed party lines four years ago to support Obama in his race with Sen. John McCain. Thursday he did the same, casting himself as part of a “dying breed,” a “Republican of a more moderate mold.”
A "Republican of a more moderate mold," I really do like the sound of that.
I, a traditional Republican, have switched parties also. Ignorant, uncouth teapartiers (many of them form the readership of AmSpec) are too much for me to stomach.
Alej| 10.25.12 @ 10:53AM
Nope, can't switch, Melvin, or Tyrone, or Shabazz, whomever... not enough melanin.
Powell was a knee grow first, and an affirmative-action legatee second. American somewhere down the list.
vtwin| 10.25.12 @ 10:56AM
I suspect Ronald Reagan wouldn’t feel a home in today Republican Party.
Mr. Melvin| 10.25.12 @ 11:27AM
Consider Mourdock's hideous statement about rape:
Life is that gift from God. I think that even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something God intended to happen.
The newer crop of Republican candidates and elected officials are, more often than not, straight from the extreme right-wing base.
They’re less polished than their predecessors; they’re more ideologically pure. As a result, they’ve accidentally been letting the mask slip and showing what’s really at the core of the right-to-life movement--control of women's bodies.
Indeed, Obama will get my vote.
Mr. Melvin| 10.25.12 @ 11:30AM
If Romney--God forbid--is elected, we Pro-Choice advocates will demand, demand, demand that a woman has a right to choose.
We will never let up for a minute. We will agitate, agitate, agitate.
Riff Raff| 10.25.12 @ 11:42AM
"Right to choose" is a euphemism for "right to murder." Agitate all you want. You are still dirt.
Boar Hunter| 10.25.12 @ 11:46AM
What a witless fool.
Ignorant, beyond redemption.
Mr. Melvin| 10.25.12 @ 12:12PM
I agree.
Riff Raff uses inappropriate, emotionally-loaded language--"right to murder"--recklessly.
If a woman has terminated her pregnancy, will the new Republican Right Wing charge her with murder?
Perhaps we will need to build hundreds, if not thousands of new prisons to house the "murderers."
Think about it. No, on the other hand, just forget it, and keep spewing your nonsense.
You are not going to think . . . period.
Riff Raff| 10.25.12 @ 12:23PM
"We will agitate, agitate, agitate." This is NOT emotionally charged? It is and it also is threatening. But you wouldn't understand that, being the idiot that you are. You really think you have a "right" to kill an unborn baby? Really? It is a killing, your mindless euphemisms notwithstanding.
Note: Boar Hunter was referring to you, as you no doubt are aware.
lost| 10.25.12 @ 3:10PM
You do realize he does not understand what you are saying. He is one of those that believe obama saved GM from bankruptcy. GM/Chrysler and the rest of the nation would have been better off without bailing GM/Chrysler out. Is GM still an American company unlike Chrysler? No wait they are a Government company now
Cpm| 10.25.12 @ 1:23PM
Don't worry Mr. Melvin (how many "Melvins" you must have suffered to take that title),when Romney is elected you will still be able to have that abortion you want so badly.
TinaB| 10.25.12 @ 8:36PM
And if you do, Mr. M, I venture to guess you will burn, burn, burn.
Aristocat| 10.26.12 @ 1:34AM
I wish your mother had exercised her right to choose not to have you.
Alej| 10.25.12 @ 1:33PM
"They’re less polished than their predecessors;.... ."
Like yesterday when obama told a six-year-old kid that "...Romney is a bullshitter?"
Unfucking quote.
Anybody that votes for obama this time around needs to be rounded up, lobotomized, sterilized, and put to good use policing up the nation's road system's rights of way. Democrats are the dross of American society.
TLP| 10.25.12 @ 4:02PM
This is the subject of tomorrow's Contest.
Be there.
KennesawJack| 10.25.12 @ 7:42PM
Can I bring my friend, Rudy?
Grzmlyk| 10.25.12 @ 4:09PM
Or just charged with the treason of which they are guilty.
Better yet, we should sentence them to live the lives they want us to live. But that would be cruel and unusual.
JP| 10.25.12 @ 2:11PM
Life is something God itends for God creates All Life. About 75% of Americans still believe that old concept.
BTW, why don't you sit down and have a talk with Rebecca Kiessling or Monica Kelsey and tell them they never deserved to live.? Both of their biological fathers raped their mothers.
Yes, I applaud your decision to vote for Obama. You 2 deserve eachother.
Dave Williams| 10.25.12 @ 12:22PM
That is really stupid, even for you.
Grzmlyk| 10.25.12 @ 4:07PM
And JFK would be called a radical right-winger by today's extortionist, dishonest, hateful Democrat party.
Anthony| 10.25.12 @ 4:31PM
And JFK would feel at home in Obozo's Muslim Marxist Party? You're so full of it vtwin.
Quartermaster| 10.25.12 @ 12:12PM
Colin Powell admitted he voted for the Bammer simply because they shared skinn color (in other words, Powell is a racialist). In addition to that, Powell has always been a Dem wearing GOP colors.
The reality is, if you are switching parties, you are simply going home to be with the rest of tools and fools. If the Tea Party types cause political indigestion, then that is confirmation of what i saind in the first sentence. You were never GOP, moderate or conservative. For TP to cause you problems you have to be a leftist extremist.
KennesawJack| 10.25.12 @ 7:52PM
This hurts, but it's time for True Confessions. I WAS a big Powell fan and thought he paid his racial dues with the '08 endorsement so I overlooked it. And then, some of you (doubtless TLP-he of the monster memory) will recall that I suggested Powell might make a good running mate for Romney for no other reason than it would have represented a complete repudiation of Obamarx by an accomplished "Nigga" (vtwin's words, not mine). However, I have, sadly and belatedly, come to the realization that Mr. Powell's skin color means more to him than his country. So, to all the cadre (I was gonna say corpsman but I don't know how to pronounce it) who post here on the correct side of things, please accept my abject apologies for my aforementioned foolishness. Oh! Before I forget. Mr. Melvin, you, sir, are either a f**king idiot or a liar, or, quite possibly, both but you are most assuredly not a traditonal Republican.
NB| 10.25.12 @ 8:31PM
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KennesawJack| 10.25.12 @ 8:59PM
Always.
ebonystone| 10.25.12 @ 1:57PM
Colin Powell and Barack Obama: one affirmative-action product supporting another.
Anthony| 10.25.12 @ 4:41PM
So Melvin, do tell us about the "dying breed" of Democrats who support Romney. List 5 for us will ya? And what mold exactly have Democrats injested that allows you folks to support the Muslim Marxist president?
You are a traditional moron and most certainly were never a Republican.
I seem to remember your ilk didn't have too many warm and kind words for former D Georgia senator Zell Miller, eh Melvin?
Alan| 10.25.12 @ 11:18AM
If I hear him say "folks" one more time I'll vomit. One of most overused terms in his pathetic lexicon.
Pony| 10.25.12 @ 3:11PM
Good afternoon, folks.
Just wanted to wish y'all a blessed day.
Folks in my part of the woods will continue to Obama on.
TLP| 10.25.12 @ 4:03PM
I'm assuming that your part of the woods, is where the Bears Shit.
Alan| 10.25.12 @ 5:21PM
Actually folks in your part of the woods couldn't find their way out of the woods unless it had three or less trees in it.
HereInPortland| 10.25.12 @ 6:20PM
I was just trying to be kind
by wishing y'all a "blessed" day.
HereInPortland| 10.25.12 @ 6:21PM
Yes, I'm PonyFromPortland.
Kitty | 10.25.12 @ 6:22AM
Big Bird, binders and bayonets. That's the sum total of Obama's campaign.
spike59| 10.25.12 @ 6:25AM
OBAMA 2012 is strictly small ball- 'look, a squirrel!', the 'death stare', and strawman construction
the voters have had enough of this crap-time to evict the Obama family from their gubmint housing
spike59| 10.25.12 @ 6:23AM
'CNN's Erin Burnett goes through and fact checks Obama campaign literature that claims to be his second term plan.'
http://www.realclearpolitics.c.....dd_up.html
Alan| 10.25.12 @ 11:24AM
Wasn't meant to be a plan, it was meant to be a stage prop.
Ted R.| 10.25.12 @ 6:36AM
Obama saved U.S., the patient on the table that was crashing because of the incompetence of the guy in there before him. Stimulus got us back to stable but critical condition. Meantime Obama spent a lot of effort to make sure there was enough insurance for U.S.
Obama couldn't do much else, because of the willful obstruction of some of the family members of U.S. to any further action or aid. So, we've mostly been left to wait for the patient's vitals to recover. As anyone who has crashed as bad as U.S. has, that can take time. Still the patient has noticeably improved.
But, the situation is still delicate for U.S. Some of U.S. are clamoring for a new team of doctors (who hail from the same Bush-league school), who insist that the thing this patient needs is to have the life-support yanked, maybe given a few Red Bulls. Then he'll get off the table.
That's an insane prescription, of course. And there's no way we're going to let that happen to U.S. You may be preventing us from the government supply-side measures that would be optimal, to improve the situation of U.S., but for damn sure we're not going to let you at the helm again. You're going to have to wait till Dr. Rubio has graduated.
spike59| 10.25.12 @ 6:45AM
"Obama saved U.S"
hahahahahahahahahahaha...GOOD ONE!!!!!
wait, wait....you're...SERIOUS??????
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
are you going to volunteer to help pack when the ObaMao family gets evicted from their gubmint housing?
Al Adab| 10.25.12 @ 9:29AM
They convieniently over look, or purposly forget, that the collapse came AFTER the DEMS took control of Congress in 2006 and began fostering their vision on a still expanding economy.
Drunken Sailor| 10.25.12 @ 12:39PM
Al, they don't forget that. They simply deny it and hope we do not notice.
Warrior| 10.25.12 @ 4:52PM
They also deny the fact that the recession had officially ended prior to the signing of the stimulus. The stimulus is one of the major causes of the current stalled economy.
C.B.| 10.25.12 @ 6:50AM
You must have some really good drugs working this morning.......
Darin| 10.25.12 @ 6:55AM
I pity people like Ted R. who actually believe this. There is none so blind as those who will not see.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.25.12 @ 8:47AM
It is not sufficient to describe his ilk as willfully blind. He demands that we too not see, curses our failure to poke out our own eyes, and tries to thrust a pointed stick at our faces in order achieve impaired visual parity.
vtwin| 10.25.12 @ 11:14AM
Darin , Albert, where was the country on January 20, 2009 and where is the country today? You might want to look up definition of blind.
Quartermaster| 10.25.12 @ 12:14PM
The country was far better off than it is todat vtwin.
I looked up blind and found your picture in place of the text.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.25.12 @ 2:07PM
On 012009, I was earning about $15K more per year, and paying $1.90 for gas, and was shelling out much less for groceries and utilities.
In my neighborhood, the GM Boxwood Road plant was open, as was the Catholic School where three generations of my family attended. Both of these closed for good during the Obama administration.
At a national level, Messrs. Stevens, Smith, Wood and Doherty were alive.
I am not blind to the effect that Obama's policies have had on all of these things, and many more.
I suggest you consult your audio dictionary for the definition of "Obtuse".
JP| 10.25.12 @ 2:15PM
In Jan 2009 the unemployment rate was at 7%; today it is either 7.8% or 15% (if you count those who no longer work).
In January 2009, the defecit sat at $9.8 trillion; today it is $16.1 trillion.
In January 2009, there were 32 million on Food Stamps. Today 49 million are on Food Stamps.
In January 2009 total outlays for all Welfare Entitlements was around $300 billion. Today it is over $1 trillion.
Enough said.
ebonystone| 10.25.12 @ 2:27PM
It's the debt -- the amount the government owes to lenders -- that's at $16 trillion.
The deficit is the annual shortcoming of revenue vs expenditures -- the amount that the government must borrow to pay its bills. Under Obama the deficit has been running at $1.5 trillion/year, raising the debt to the $16 trillion figure.
The Avenger| 10.25.12 @ 7:20AM
You sir are a fool. nuff said.
Pecos Pete| 10.25.12 @ 7:52AM
Ted: Some links for you to enjoy:
http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/10101.html (apply for food stamps) with 47 million people, an historical high.
Get Your Free Phone:
If you can't read, YouTube offers this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgL_0xjQM2E
And there is the wonderful job Obama has done with unemployment, currently at 14.7% (U6).
Ted, have you checked the national debt lately? $16 trillion dollars and growing. Annual deficits in excess of $1 trillion dollars. usdebtclock.org
Yet, you claim "willful obstruction" of your demand for "government supply-side measures" ... your talking points from the democrat party and the Obama campaign don't make much sense. The people on this site, except for Village Idiots like you, are a lot smarter and more knowledgeable than the people you can persuade with your idiotic comments.
TLP| 10.25.12 @ 4:05PM
Contest, tomorrow.
Pony| 10.25.12 @ 5:05PM
The Free Government Cell Phone Program was started in 1984.
1984.
Stop trying to make people believe Obama started this program.
Truth to Power| 10.25.12 @ 6:56PM
Hey we got that from one of his more intelligent supporters.
Terrible Ted| 10.25.12 @ 8:05PM
I can't remember what cell phones looked like in 1984?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.25.12 @ 8:39PM
They were about the size of a PRC77 radio set, and practically needed a backpack to tote them.
Stormzeye| 10.25.12 @ 8:06AM
One can only imagine what the last two years would have been like during the former Pelosi-Reid Administration if it hadn't been for the 2010 election's repudiation of the vile snake oil salesman that currently occupies the Oval Office. Thankfully, the Tea Party Movement saved us from any further "comprehensive" pieces of legislation which were spewed forth with the same velocity as as the green pea soup Linda Blair vomited on Father Karas.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QjrBjdb2T8
Simon Templar| 10.25.12 @ 9:30AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QjrBjdb2T8
vtwin| 10.25.12 @ 11:18AM
Damn Simon, I didn’t need that at 8 o’clock in the morning.
TLP| 10.25.12 @ 4:06PM
Where's your "Nigga"? (vtwin's words, not mine)
FastJohnny| 10.25.12 @ 8:09AM
Hmmm, your post is very interesting. It smacks of someone who has had too many soy lattes sitting at the wifi hotspot in Starbucks madly pounding out on that macbook all those things that your deep and brooding mind can come up with against those who would have a different opinion. That's just the feeling I get and your comments are a lot like my brother-in-laws blather, he fancies himself to be on moral highground too. Well, good luck with that.
Riff Raff| 10.25.12 @ 9:38AM
The "patient", the U.S. economy, was rushed in to surgery, following a severe government inflicted gunshot wound, and was bleeding profusely. The new Chief of Medicine, Dr. Obama of Government Medical Services, was quick to act: "We shall bleed the patient in hopes that this will stimulate his recovery." Of course this did not work, and it is a testament to the PATIENT'S Constitution that he did not die, not to any stupid acts by the criminally incompetent Dr. Obama.
Government spending does not produce prosperity, except for the selective prosperity of those in government, while the rest of us pay for it. Economics does not work under a government-centric model, it never has and it never will. PEOPLE create prosperity, not government. "Dr. Obama" is killing the patient, not aiding his recovery. What is insane is to pretend that the grossly incompetent boob in the White House is a great success while jobs continue to disappear, wealth continues to contract, and government continues to take more and more of OUR money to spend on itself.
Simon Templar| 10.25.12 @ 9:40AM
Your willful ignorance and deceptions are actually staggering to read.
The stimulus was a gigantic waste of money and most economist agree. The quantitative easing is what "stabilized" the economy not the stimulus and has only put the disaster off and created an illusion of stability.
Take a course in economics and business, Ted the Red. It is government interference and spending by both Dem and Republicans that has gotten us in this mess...
vtwin| 10.25.12 @ 11:01AM
The stimulus saved the economy from a second Great Depression and most economist agree.
http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookm.....-stimulus/
Riff Raff| 10.25.12 @ 11:44AM
Horse manure. The stimulus paid off Obama's campaign supporters. Fewer people have jobs today that in 2008. Wealth is contracting, not expanding, dependency on government is up, Up, UP!!!! You live in a leftist bubble, oblivious to facts and to reality.
vtwin| 10.25.12 @ 1:50PM
So, if the facts don't fit your ideology deny?
JP| 10.25.12 @ 2:20PM
The Bush Recession ended in June 2009. Stimulus money didn't even begin hitting the streets until late summer of 2009. And Jay Bookman didn't give any facts.
The fact is, Obama had nothing to do with the ending of the Bush Recession -how could he? He was only in office for 5 months when it ended.
But, Obama certainly had everything to do with our anemic recovery. As a matter of fact, we are most probably in the first weeks of the Obama Recession.
Warrior| 10.25.12 @ 4:56PM
We have been living in the Obama recession for years. The economy is a zombie, but not officially a recession as long as you keep pumping a trillion and a half of borrowed and printed money to artificially keep it propped up. They are putting makeup on a corpse.
Alej| 10.25.12 @ 9:43AM
Ted R 's (or Kweise Mfume, or whatever his real name is) awkward attempt at semantically correct English sort of reminds us why his type wasn't allowed to learn to read in the good old days. Even if they couuld approach technical literacy, they never made sense.
vtwin| 10.25.12 @ 10:42AM
Ted, thank for you insightful comment.
I don’t think any incoming President in our history has found the nation in greater dire straits --multiple and unnecessary wars, job loss rate at a staggering 750,000 a month, projected annual deficits at an unbelievable $1.3 trillion …-- than what Bush left behind for the incoming President. Our nation since the Inauguration of Barack Obama despite an obstructionist Republican Party has come a long way on all fronts and now is not the time to give the helm to an inexperienced and clueless fool who worships a god he keeps in a Cayman Islands bank account.
Alej| 10.25.12 @ 10:56AM
"...despite an obstructionist Republican Party... ."
Lord North called George Washington an obstructionist.
vtwin| 10.25.12 @ 11:05AM
Yes, an obstructionist Republican Party more interested in its political future than the Nation future.
Truth to Power| 10.25.12 @ 11:51AM
You're projecting again.
Riff Raff| 10.25.12 @ 12:27PM
Note: I am not a Republican, but if Republicans are obstructionist to the Socialism of the Democrat Party, then I stand with obstructionist Republicans. Obstruct! Obstruct! Obstruct!
Truth be known, it is the Socialist Democrats who obstruct, they obstruct me keeping MY OWN MONEY! They obstruct business! They obstruct private property! They obstruct peosperity and success. Todays Democrats, the true face of Greed.
vtwin| 10.25.12 @ 1:52PM
"Projecting again," sure I'm more interested in my political future than the my country's' future.
Truth to Power| 10.25.12 @ 2:32PM
Green energy payoffs to campaign contributors, covering up Fast and Furious, looking the other way while gay money bundlers pulled in big stimulus money, high speed rail money dumped into campaign contributors' pockets, no comment on the future flexibility with Vlad the impaler, trying to blame some bush league film maker for al Qaeda attacks in Libya and covering it up for weeks since it helped the narrative of Obama, the slayer of al Qaeda, etc., etc. You could care less about your country. It is all about a small minded political movement, progressivism, and its leader, the dim witted big O.
TLP| 10.25.12 @ 4:08PM
How's your "Nigga" doing? (vtwin's words, not mine)
JP| 10.25.12 @ 2:23PM
The GOP had no power to stop the Dems. And lest you forget, the Recession didn't begin until the Dems re-took Congress in 2007.
Additionally, more jobs were lost after Bush left office. The Bush Recession ended 40 months ago. This is the Obama Economy.
Stan Redmond| 10.25.12 @ 4:30PM
Um... The democrat house is responsible for budgets. Remember 2007 and Nancy Pelosi letting children run the house? Bush stupidly signed their budgets. Since 2009, democrats have not passed a budget. Reid won't introduce a single thing the 2011 Republican house has introduced. If there's anyone obstructing anything in Congress it is Harry Reid.
Appleby| 10.25.12 @ 6:54AM
For further information, see the Book of Daniel. This whole "Lightworker" thing gives me the creeps, especially this close to Halloween.
Has anybody done the survey of Halloween Masks, by the way? How many Obama masks are we seeing this year?
Darin| 10.25.12 @ 6:56AM
I'm noticing FAR fewer Obama signs in yards. And almost no bumper stickers.
Alan| 10.25.12 @ 8:25AM
None in my neighborhood(Michigan), period!
Whereas last time it was epidemic. I doubt at this point even those who are voting again for Sugardaddius Islamowelfarus want anybody to know about it. Romney now tied with the muzzie in Michigan
Pecos Pete| 10.25.12 @ 8:55AM
Alan: "Sugardaddius Islamowelfarus" caused me to spit coffee from an immediate snort laugh. Well done!
Quartermaster| 10.25.12 @ 12:16PM
Does he owe you a new monitor now?
Pecos Pete| 10.25.12 @ 7:57PM
QM: Keyboard and monitor.
Alan's Girl| 10.25.12 @ 11:58AM
LIKE. LIKE. LIKE.
vtwin| 10.25.12 @ 1:57PM
Obama is a the 97% favorite to win Michigan.
Alan| 10.25.12 @ 2:41PM
Tied in polls, but the Islamomarxist is a 97% favorite, math ain't your strong suit is it twit.
Riff Raff| 10.25.12 @ 9:40AM
You guys are obvously NOT in California. "Obama" stickers are everywhere. Lots of boobs in California, bought and paid for with YOUR tax money.
Alej| 10.25.12 @ 9:46AM
As Kipling observed 160 years ago, "The brownskinned man will always be the white man's burden."
He just didn't know he was talking about welfare back then.
Alan| 10.25.12 @ 10:07AM
California is hopeless, imploding in on itself by the day, hour and minute. Forget it even exists. It has one usable feature, fruit and veggies and most of(southern third might still be salvagable) the rest of the state is a leftist toilet.
SUBVET| 10.25.12 @ 11:30AM
You're right on the FRUIT part.
Alan's Girl| 10.25.12 @ 11:59AM
You remember what they say about living in CA-- it's like living in a bowl of granola- what ain't fruit & nuts is flakes!
Alan| 10.25.12 @ 12:39PM
I guess I should clarify, Fruit and veggies of the root growing type, not the human debris that lives there.
SUBVET| 10.25.12 @ 11:34AM
What's the matter with boobs.....I like boobs.
Quartermaster| 10.25.12 @ 12:17PM
Politically, Kalifornia is a 3rd world country. Soon they will match it in the rest of specifications.
KyMouse| 10.25.12 @ 9:49AM
I've gotten lots of thumbs-up signs from drivers who see my "Fool us twice, shame on us" bumper sticker (with the Obama logo for the "o's"). A few people have asked where to get one, so I've printed out a few to hand out.
Alej| 10.25.12 @ 1:36PM
I thought I saw one last week, but it was just a proctologist's desk model.
benny havens| 10.25.12 @ 7:22AM
So he came up with a “plan” pamphlet. I guess he learned something from the debates. Romney told him he has “No plans and no solutions”. Two days later he has a plan, I wonder if he read it?
I presume that his campaign coach came up with the plan pamphlet. Yes David Axelrod, the guy who, when asked a question, speaks in one run-on sentence after another to the point where he has a hard time catching his breath.
Stan Redmond| 10.25.12 @ 4:32PM
We will have to pass it to know what's in it...
Von Mises Jr| 10.25.12 @ 7:25AM
Santayana theorized "All of this has happened before, all of this will happen again."
In the Weimar Republic, there were three party factions: Majority Socialist, Independent Socialist and the Bolshevik inspired Communist. The Prussian Empire and the Weimar Republic had rejected capital markets and free trade for a choice between variations of socialism deciding it was better to steal from neighbors than produce for themselves.
This is what led to the rise of Hitler. Socialism always and everywhere creates catastrophic misery. It inspires war.
So after the Prussian Empire and Weimar Republic experienced decades of revolution, war, poverty and hyperinflation, they hailed Hitler whom promised to give them other people's stuff.
That is why Hitler attempted to conquer the world with the support of the German people. Have our mesmerized masses descended to worshiping a monster who will take from others and give to them? I am afraid many have already accepted Obama precisely for this reason.
Jacob McCandles| 10.25.12 @ 9:26AM
These "mesmerized masses", I fear, are actually the majority of Americans. Or maybe I'm giving them too much credit. To be mesmerized requires that one pays attention just a little bit. Maybe that's why Von M. said you can't do this free market thing half-assed. The masses of dependent citizens grow like tumors. You are either all in, or you will eventually be subjects.
Von Mises Jr| 10.25.12 @ 9:33AM
PA, WI, OH, IA and NH are all in play while FL, VA, NC and CO have moved into the likely Romney column. He had 206 Electoral College votes seemingly secure not counting these new developments.
Do not believe the crap you hear from the ObamaMedia. I am very optimistic that the American people are having a Great Awakening.
Alan| 10.25.12 @ 10:09AM
So is Michigan, now tied up.
TLP| 10.25.12 @ 4:20PM
Contest, tomorrow.
Jacob McCandles| 10.25.12 @ 10:55AM
Yep, I think Romney will win big, despite the large scale ignorance in our society. The question is, can he get the Senate, and if so will he budget cut like a Rand Paul or like a John McCain?
I have been shorting the market for a long time expecting the traders to finally realize our fiscal nightmare. If Romney gets both houses of congress, I might reverse my strategy. Still lots of question marks though.
TLP| 10.25.12 @ 4:20PM
Contest, tomorrow.
Appleby| 10.25.12 @ 7:37AM
I was at the park one afternoon watching a little girl feed bread to Canada Geese and calling, "Here, duckies! Here, duckies!" Her mama finally said, "Sweetheart, those are geese." Susie turned and put her fists on her little hips and said firmly, "I WANT them to be DUCKIES." Then she went back to calling "Here, duckies!" Obama's crowd wants them to be duckies....
Kwan| 10.25.12 @ 7:41AM
That booklet " A Plan For Jobs" isn't worth a warm bucket of spit if employers don't want to hire workers because of their fear of what ObamaCare is going to cost them. This is more of that carrot-on-a-stick Great-Leap-Forward crapola that Communist Dictators like to feed to the masses to keep them from rising-up and tossing them out of office.
TLP| 10.25.12 @ 4:10PM
Contest, tomorrow, Mr. Kwan.
Obama's Supporters, no matter what.
Pecos Pete| 10.25.12 @ 7:59AM
King O has a plan for the United States economy explained in a 20 page booklet/pamphlet. ObamaCare for the healthcare segment takes 2,700 pages just for starters before the bureaucrats add in the required regulations to implement the monstrosity. But, the Village Idiots are ecstatic.
TLP| 10.25.12 @ 4:11PM
20 Pages, and half of them are Pictures of him.
Narccissist, anyone?
Dodd2| 10.25.12 @ 8:04AM
"What is astonishing is that any ordinary man could still be such a fool."
Not so. See Eric Hoffer's "The True Believer."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer
Alan| 10.25.12 @ 8:30AM
All boils down to the same thing, a large chunk of any society are sheeple and need someone to lead them, think for them, take care of them, make decisions for them. Born slaves!
Dagny Taggert| 10.25.12 @ 8:56AM
"Freedom of choice is what they got; Freedom from choice is what they want."
-Devo
MelvinNC| 10.25.12 @ 8:13AM
Kind of like the Pied Piper, but I would be content by seeing that he was the first one to go over the cliff and watch his arse get smashed upon the rocks below with the rest of his Lemmings.
Nancy in NC| 10.25.12 @ 8:28AM
O has a plan alright. To fundamentally finish off this country once and for all. Four more years and we will be the United Socialist States of America.
TLP| 10.25.12 @ 4:12PM
Contest, tomorrow.
Louis Jenkins| 10.25.12 @ 9:15AM
Obama stands upon the stage and struts about, speaking of his holy plan. It glows blue in the artifical light cast by the stage illumination. It's a powerful document, much like a comic book about Superman, or the Fantastic Four. It is filled with page upon page of information written soemwhat like an ancient Sanskrit. Only Obama can understand it, as he is the "One". Will he read from it, or will he just walk about flashing it's phathomic blue color?
Nope, he will not. More of the same old stuff, the same give aways, same diplomacy, etc. If he had a plan it would have been implemented a long time ago. It's all for show.
Anthony| 10.25.12 @ 9:25AM
Leftism is a mental disorder. It requires one to suspend all rational thinking and common sense. It is based on a fanaticism that is totally irrational, hence the idolatry of "The One". It is indeed religious in nature. This is why the left respond like 3rd graders when challenged.
Their call for violence is their desperate cry to salvage their delusions.
Thus, I give you Ted R, Jack London, Purp, and vtwin, sterling examples of today's D Party.
Alan| 10.25.12 @ 9:41AM
Leftism is Utopianism. Utopianism is unachievable because of the human nature of men. Human nature(reality) both its good and bad sides will ALWAYS trump utopianistic dreamers and the results will always end the same, disaster for leftism. To beleive in leftist/utopianist ideology requires the suspension of the belief in reality.
To try to better mankind and staying in the bounds of reality while doing is achieveable.
Unfortunately forced leftism in history has resulted in the deaths of 10's of if not 100's of millions and to deny and ignore that fact is lunacy.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.25.12 @ 9:42AM
May I add Ralph Novy, JHarp, and yesterday's Snappy to your roster?
vtwin| 10.25.12 @ 11:45AM
Leftism, really? How about hope is that a mental disorder? I asked because when millions of Americans were unemployed or in fear of becoming unemployed, when millions were losing their homes or afraid losing their homes saw hope in Obama hope for change from the corrupt and clueless leadership offered by the Republican Party, the political party that tank the economy, doubled the nations’ debt and lied our nation into war. Then again maybe it wasn’t hope as much as it was anybody but the cocksuckers in the party that fucked the country up!
Quartermaster| 10.25.12 @ 12:19PM
You're changing the subject. It's not about hope, but the object of that hope. The object is what is not attainable.
The Dem dominated congress is what has led us to teh point we are at by chasing utopia. That isn't hope, that is stupidity.
vtwin| 10.25.12 @ 1:34PM
The economic downturn that began in the spring of 2005, remember the checks Bush mailed, the financial crisis that began in December of 2007 the result of bank deregulation, and the still growing national debt the result of the Bush tax cuts on 2001 and 2003 all happen before the Democrats took control of Congress in January 2007.
JP| 10.25.12 @ 2:27PM
Err... you're fibbing again. The Bush Recession hit in Dec 2007 not 2005. And it was over shortly after Obama came into office.
Another one of your fibs - the defecit today is Bush's problem because of taxes. Wrong. The last Bush budget budget for $2.8 trillion. This year Obama will have spent nearly $3.8 trillion - of which $1.3 trillion will be borrowed.
We don't have a tax problem. We have a spending problem.
Tom Kyba| 10.25.12 @ 12:39PM
Sonny, you need to grow up fast. You're an adult now. Childish smarmy hope messages are not cutting it anymore.
Alan's Girl| 10.25.12 @ 12:57PM
Have you been asleep for the last 4 yrs? Maybe we should rename you Rip VanTWINkle.
bison cookie| 10.25.12 @ 9:37AM
U.S. GOVERNMENT’S FOREIGN DEBT NOW $47,495 PER HOUSEHOLD. The debt that the U.S. government owes to foreign interests now equals approximately $47,495 for each household in the United States, according to the latest data released by the U.S. … READ MORE: http://bwcentral.org/2012/10/u.....household/
MOS was 71331| 10.25.12 @ 10:35AM
"exactly the kind of suckers whom P.T. Barnum said should never be given an even break."
I agree with what you say about 0bama backers, but Barnum didn't say that. It was W. C. Fields. The full quote is "Never give a sucker an even break, and never smarten up a chump."
Sparky| 10.25.12 @ 10:37AM
Mr. McCain, you made one trivial error in your otherwise excellent piece: "Never give a sucker an even break" is a W.C. Fields line, not a P.T. Barnum line. Barnum asserted that there's a sucker born every minute.
Petronius| 10.25.12 @ 11:01AM
If The United States is to survive, a Man must come to the fore assuming the mantle of Oliver Cromwell to take out the Trash by force, 'ere the clueless, economically illiterate hoards of predators and parasites will consume the wealth the honest, industrious, and virtuous have created. It's either this remedy, or what was the United States of America becomes an anthill.
Alan| 10.25.12 @ 11:15AM
Probably more of a dysfunctional anthill, where a majority of ants sit around, steal from other ants, kill other ants, envy other ants where the queen ant takes from the working ants and gives to the dysfunctional ants so they can sit around, steal from other ants, kill other ants, envy other ants.
Alej| 10.25.12 @ 1:39PM
I agree... when the pendulum swings, it's going to swing far past center, and the crap of this country will be traumatized by what happens to them and their "rights."
They didn't know when to quit leaning on the people who work for this country.
Who Knows?| 10.25.12 @ 11:20AM
We’re all suckers.
Try NOT to suck air for very long. Likewise gross food, which these days, is being “force-fed” people by most effective advertising, to the point of bursting.
It reminds me of how goose livers are enlarged by “farmers”, to produce foie gras. Who can doubt that the addition of fat that overeating brings doesn’t ALSO result in concomitant enlarged organs?
Here’s an old Errol Flynn joke, as I recall—
How do you herd a group of geese?
Attach some food to the end of a strong string, and feed it to one bird. When the string passes out the anus, feed it to another, etc etc. That’ll keep them strung together!
Yes---I can picture the left-liberal acolytes of Obama this way. Their “food”, though, consists of the envy and resentment “tidbits” fed to them by Obama, and the entire Taking Establishment known as the Democratic Party.
Another image cries out---just born chicks, in a nest, with their beaks wide open, gathered together just NEEDING so much the “worms” or “rats” or whatever their mother must catch. Oh, feed me, Jackie!
Suck on, America!
However, sucking is only one half of reality.
There is reception AND release.
After over-sucking, there’s bound to be a massive dumping!
gene| 10.25.12 @ 11:27AM
Obumma:
"I AM GOING TO:
- Reduce Government spending.
- Cut taxes on the Middle Class
- Create millions of jobs. On and on and on.
GOING TO? You have a Plan? Where were you the last 3 and a half years? Playing Golf? Appearing on Letterman?
ebonystone| 10.25.12 @ 2:37PM
Right! If he was going to do all that. why didn't he do it in his first term? I'm sure that virtually of the Republicans in Congress would have enthusiatically approved. So it must have been the obstructionist Dems who stopped him!
It seems to me that Obama is saying: "Vote for me as President, but vote for the Republican for the Senate and House."
Alan| 10.25.12 @ 3:17PM
H'se got a plan all right, plans to play another 200 rounds of golf, plans to take 15 or 20 vacations, plans to turn his hideus looking wife loose on our sensibilities, plans to line the pockets of his Green energy shills, plans to turn more of the middleast over to his Muslim Brotherhood buddies. Oh yeah he has plans all right. Remember everything is a "top priority", i.e. right behind his taking a crap, wiping his @ss and pulling his pants up.
tasine| 10.25.12 @ 1:59PM
Great article, all true. I have concluded from 50 years of following politics closely, and working in and around the public a number of those years that our government is totally broken, totally and completely corrupt, and that those who vote for those corrupt people are enabling such, and our country will fall as a result.
I have done a short article at http://no-ruler.net/2423/new-america/#.UIlssIa8poQ entitled NEW AMERICA and I hope everyone will read and respond. I believe anything is possible and that failure is only failure if people give up. There are ways out of the abyss we are in and my little article addresses some of my ideas, but more importantly begs for ideas from any American who worries about our country.
BackToBasics| 10.25.12 @ 3:27PM
My biggest concern is vote fraud by the democrats in the swing states. Now, irony of ironies, MSNBC and now "The Washington Post" mention how Romney might be planning on vote fraud in Ohio.
I think the dems are setting up a scenario that if the election is very close and Romney is ahead and Ohio makes the difference, the dems plan to contest the election in court and in public opinion about Romney winning because of voter fraud by the Romney team.
If the election is close in several states and Romney is ahead I expect that all will be contested and it may be 2 months before a decision is made.
I hope the plurality of votes and states Romney wins is more than enough to make such recounts and vote fraud accusations unnecessary.
http://www.breitbart.com/Insta.....-Challenge
unclebryan| 10.25.12 @ 6:57PM
Again with the "P.T. Barnum" -- It was W.C. Fields who said "Never give a sucker an even break". P.T. Barnum said "There's a sucker born every minute". Doesn't Stacy read the comments? I'm just trying to set a brother straight here.
obadiah| 10.25.12 @ 7:32PM
oh righteous ones, the prospects for your victory have suddenly turned gloomy. intrade had obama down to 55 or so and apparently fading fast and now he's back above 60. all the stories in american spectator are about obama, obama, obama. what has happened to the sir knight romney? why is his banner not flying from every headline proclaiming his vision of a restored america? is it because romney, romney, romney is as vacuous as obama, obama, obama?
Frog in Uniform | 10.25.12 @ 8:11PM
A "Lightworker"? oh my God... After having read this http://www.sfgate.com/entertai.....php#page-1
I think liberals belong to the loon bin.
"Lightworker" is basically the translation of Lucifer, the arch demon who was the Keeper of the Light before his foolish pride started his eternal fall. Suits the One well.
Shiori| 10.25.12 @ 8:19PM
Dear Fellow Conservatives/Republicans/Libertarians:
Stop complaining about Leftist hegemony in Academia and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. It's called discrimination - and it's totally illegal. And no, hiring one moderate Republican Professor per thousand Left winger Professors doesn't amount to compliance. These are the zombies of Affirmative Action - why not use it against them? Nothing's more hilarious, or more just than forcing lefties to live by their own lofty phony values. If/When Romney wins - let's have a really productive 4 to 8 years and really flush them out of every single dark crevice they crawl and fester in. Whattayasay gang?
CaliforiaHereICome| 10.25.12 @ 8:43PM
If I could, I would round up all of you AmSpec radicals and feed you feet first into a huge sausage grinder.
Then I would truck your effluvia all the way to Illinois and let the hog farmers there feed you to their hogs.
Sooey, sooey, sooey . . .
KennesawJack| 10.25.12 @ 11:06PM
Jeez, you're gonna do all that and you can't even spell "California". What a guy. Or is it gal? Or is it girlieguy?
spike59| 10.26.12 @ 5:41AM
bring it, pantywaist...'if you could' harness an actual thought, you would put down the bag of cheetos and get out of mommy's basement; who knows, maybe you could find some purpose to your pathetic little life instead of issuing the usual Libtard threats of violence against your betters?
Rhoetus| 10.27.12 @ 11:30PM
Pay off California's debt when you arrive. That should keep you out of mischief for a century.
Rhoetus| 10.27.12 @ 11:28PM
There is a word that describes Obama supporters:
Lemmings.
MikeC| 10.28.12 @ 1:24AM
"As for Obama's promise to "cut out spending we don't need," ...
He can start with the $1.4 BILLION that is cost taxpayers to put up with Moochelle's vacations, wardrobe, and other spending for the past four years.
Moochelle is obviously better off than she was four years ago. How about you?